You may be wondering, “Do we actually have evidence that people who follow this advice will be at lower risk for cancer?”

Well, mama, we do now.

In recent studies, breast cancer risk was shown to be 60% lower in women who followed at least five of the AICR’s recommendations.

The top dietary suggestions?

> Be as slim as possible within healthy body weight range.

> Eat mostly plant-based.

> Limit consumption of alcohol.

Hmmm, interesting, no?

What about other cancers? You ask. Let me tell you. 😉 Following those recommendations for prevention is associated with lower risk—not only of breast cancer—but of lung, liver, kidney, stomach, endometrial, colorectal, and esophageal cancer too.

In other words, staying slim and healthy, while eating plant-based and limiting consumption of alcohol, likely lowers our risk of most types of cancer!

The tenth recommendation is actually aimed at cancer survivors—not just healthy individuals hoping to avoid it. The advice? Follow the other nine suggestions for cancer prevention. You read that right: the same dietary choices that help prevent cancer might also help those with the disease to survive it. Wow, just digest that for a second.

Studies found that following these guidelines for cancer prevention also correlated to lower mortality in older women—especially those fighting breast cancer.

A cancer diagnosis is a powerful push to start eating (and living) better—but let’s not wait until the chance for prevention is past. We can start eating healthier and living longer right now! As I’ve written before, these same dietary practices (namely, plant-based!) have been associated with lower risk for heart and respiratory disease, too.

Yep, the advice for living longer, lowering risk of many cancers and generally being healthier is one and the same: plant-based, Vegan.

There’s a wonder diet out there,—you just have to choose it.

The more healthy habits we develop, the longer we live. Simple. Here are a few:

> Avoid smoking.

> Minimize alcohol consumption.

> Eat leafy greens every day.

> Eat fruit every day.

> Exercise.

> Go plant-based, Vegan!

That last one is important because further studies have shown that while limiting alcohol and tobacco use is healthy, adding a plant-based, Vegan lifestyle to the mix is even better!

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Donna Wild, Founder
When Donna was 12 years old, she had a dream to be a dancer and have a house on a property with some happy cows. However, this was the year that doctors diagnosed her with juvenile arthritis and began medicating her for the pain. At 17 years of age, she visited specialists who diagnosed her with chronic rheumatoid arthritis in her entire body and said she would be crippled by the time she was just 22. By then, she had spent her life training to be a professional dancer, however, had become 13 kilograms overweight and directionless.
Donna believes that animal cruelty is wrong and personally suffers when she sees the way humans treat animals, she has worked tirelessly for a decade to empower people and families to eat in alignment with their belief- cruelty-free.
Today, Donna is a Mum of a four-year-old, a Nutritionist, a popular plant-based health and lifestyle author and an Australian Latin Dance Champion. She is completely free of arthritis, pain, and medication.
With her experience transitioning from a meat-eating to vegetarian, to vegan, to purely plant-based diet, and with the tens of thousands of hours she’s put into learning about nutrition and human bodies, Donna has gone just as deep into the ethics behind what we eat which is how she came to found this charity.
Til The Cows Come Home is a charity that aims to be the World Vision for livestock animals, on a mission to rescue animals that are too sick or injured to make it to slaughter and re-home them to a sanctuary to live a full and happy life, just as Donna imaged as a child.